The Shattered mix is a space-age update of a classic practical joke, a realistic static-cling simulation of broken glass accompanied by one of several projectiles feigned to have broken it: a .45-cal. slug, a baseball, a screw, and more.

Tattoo Parlor is a collection of articles of personal adornment: an 18-in.-long sleeve (which even will fit most adults), a bandanna, a colored armband tattoo, plus a body clip, a “magic tattoo” and related items.

Charmed is a 21st-century implementation of the traditional charm bracelet. The mix includes the bracelet itself, a flat plastic band in several colors, and a variety of colorful charms that clip onto it: letters, figures and shapes. The versatility of the system encourages collection of the various components, which can be assembled and reconfigured to match the mood and message of the wearer.

Zoo Mania builds on the success of Brand Vending’s soft plastic bears for bulk vending. These have proven so popular that Brand instructed the factory to produce a wide range of animal figurines, similar in size and characteristics to the iconic ursine toy. They include soft monkeys, elephants, cows, pigs and a penguin.

California Dreamin’ II also addresses the demand created by an earlier Brand product. California Dreamin’ I paid tribute to the idyllic fun-in-the-sun image of the West Coast created by the popular culture of the ‘60s and ‘70s. That line spoke to the rebirth of enthusiasm for the Beach Boys, Jan & Dean and hot-rod automobiles. The new California Dreamin’ II is an extensive assortment of nostalgic necklaces and bracelets appealing to anyone aspiring to be “out there, havin’ fun/In that warm California sun.”
Founded 12 years ago, Brand Vending Products maintains warehouses at its Arizona headquarters and in Columbus, Ohio. Calling (800) 967-3048 or visiting brandimports.com on the Web can reach the company.

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The administrators at Sqwishland.com have announced that the already established Sqwishfinder software in Sqwishland.com will soon have a secure portal for Operators only. According to Dax Logue, “We want a special section just for the operators of SQWISHLAND vending machines, kind of like a VIP room just for them”. The purpose of this web space is to provide new exclusive inside information to our operators: new game features, access to Videos, archived Sqwishland News articles, a form to add new SQWISHLAND locations to the Sqwishfinder, and much more. Logue continued, “depending on operator response, we may even have a live chat function.” The portal should go live by 09-07-2010. Since this will be an exclusive, secure area, call your representative to receive your login credentials.

With its very simple concept, it’s hard to know why it hasn’t been done before. Think vending machine meets virtual world. Is it an affordable Webkinz® or the new Club Penguin®? In fact, it’s both – it’s a world first and for as little as 25c, every kid can afford to be part of it. It is democracy in a capsule – for parents of the global financial crisis, it’s a social equalizer.

Sqwishlanders – they are cute, they are collectible, they are fun – a craze every parent can afford to support and you don’t have to go far to find one. Available at those ubiquitous red vending machines found in every supermarket, convenience store, arcade and malls across America, put your quarter in, crank the handle and wait and see what comes out. The surprise of the catch is just part of the fun. Once you open the capsule and see which Sqwishland® character has been dispensed, a fortune cookie style secret code will reveal yet another surprise, an unknown bounty of virtual game cash will be discovered when the code is entered on line.

“It’s these elements of serendipitous discovery which have made this an amazing hit,” said Dax Logue, cofounder of the game and owner of Brand Vending, America’s leading bulk vending supplier. In the 4 years leading to its launch, Sqwishland® sold around 47,000,000 capsule products, and since the April 2010 launch of Sqwishland.com® at the industry trade show in Florida, Brand Vending has taken over 29,000,000 orders, and shipping over 1,800,000 each week.

While every modern parent already knows how an online virtual world of avatars and games works, some questions remain standard. Is it safe? Is it engaging? Is there an educational element? The answer is YES. According to Logue, who also chairs the safety committee of the National Bulk Vendors Association, they “were keen to ensure that Sqwishland® found that delicate balance between safety, education and affordability while still maintaining a quirky attitude and a laid back sense of fun.”

“The hunt for the various Sqwishland® characters has an extra dimension,” said Logue, Every shipment of Sqwishland® capsules are a series of altLimited Edition Rare, Super Rare, Crazy Rare and Unbelievably Rare characters along with the bad guys in Sqwishland®, the Sqwabbles®. He emphasized that Sqwishland® is empowering for kids because of the hundreds of variations and there is a real sense of victory when a rare one is captured.

New Sqwishland® members receive a 30-day free premium membership, while existing members may continue playing Sqwishland® for $ 5.00 per month. Other membership schemes available are $ 25.00 for a 6-month membership and $ 45.00 for a 12-month membership.

Sqwishland.com® is a unique concept, a patented world first that links vending machine technology to the web, made possible through a partnership between FunGuy Studio®, an Arizona-based company that specializes in creating high-end Flash Games and MMO platforms and Brand Vending®, a leader in the market of bulk vending products. Graeme Warring, CEO of FunGuy Studio® says, “most parents want their children to enjoy the peer to peer interaction of an online virtual world, but for many it’s a matter of affordability. As a parent myself, I’m proud that Sqwishland.com® delivers democracy in a capsule and the staggering numbers and the feedback from the kids just proves it.”

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For further information please contact:

Dax Logue,President
Brand Vending Products LLC
7782 East Greenway Road
Scottsdale, Arizona 85260
Phone :: 800-967-3048
Email :: daxl@brandimports.com

About Brand Vending
Dax and Lauri Logue, a husband and wife team from Arizona, started Brand Vending in 1989 selling flat pack vending items such as stickers. In 1995, they revolutionized the flat vending market with the introduction of temporary tattoos, also sold through flat pack vending. In 2006, they introduced capsule based vending products and the character line of Zoo Mania, Sea Mania and Jungle Mania proved to be a huge hit amongst kids selling over 47,000,000 units in 4 years.

Brand Vending has won numerous awards and has earned a reputation as a leader in the market of bulk vending products, helping thousands of Americans to start and supply small businesses in tens of thousands of communities across the country.

While Brand Vending has led the market in innovation, the Logues have together led the vending industry through the creation of a Vending Industry Association of which Dax has been president and is now the Chair of the consumer safety committee.

About FunGuy Studio
Graeme Warring founded FunGuy Studio in 2006 shortly after moving to the USA from Australia and acquiring a small toy company based in Scottsdale, Arizona. The company has produced over 120 flash game titles, three major MMO titles with corresponding toy lines distributed through mass retailers and specialty stores around the USA and has been commissioned by government to develop web-based gaming and educational solutions for various agencies.

The business is based in Scottsdale Arizona and has offices in Melbourne Australia and development studio in Manila, Philippines.

Sqwishland is also proud to announce that our Vendor Portal login is up and running. Go to www.sqwishfinder.com, and click on the “Vendor Login” button at the upper right. Vendors who have login credentials can login, enter locations for their Sqwishlander machines, view videos, see archived Sqwishland News articles, and more. If you don’t yet have your logins, please send an email to craigg@brandimports.com today!

The administrators at Sqwishland.com have announced that the already established SqwishFinder software in Sqwishland.com will soon have a secure portal for Operators only. According to Dax Logue, “We want a special section just for the operators of Sqwishlander vending machines, kind of like a VIP room just for them”. The purpose of this webspace is to provide new exclusive inside information to our operators: new game features, access to Videos, archived Sqwishland News articles, a form to add new Sqwishlander locations to the Sqwishfinder, and much more. Logue continued, “depending on operator response, we may even have live chat function.” The portal should go live by July 14th . Since this will be an exclusive, secure area, expect to receive your login credentials in the near future.

Each 1″ and 2″ capsule in the new Sqwishland product series — formerly the popular Mania and Friends bulk lines — will include a “fortune-cookie style” secret code that youngsters can use to access the game and unlock a corresponding character inhabiting the Sqwishland virtual world. Brand said it will begin shipping products with code sheets in June. It expects to have 25 million codes packed into capsules by the end of July.

Like Disney’s Club Penguin and Ganz’s Webkinz, Brand’s Sqwishland is a massively multiplayer online game, known as MMO or MMORPG, involving a virtual world of challenges, activities and avatars. During its public beta test, the bulk vending company is hoping to get feedback from hundreds players in Sqwishland’s young target audience. It is building awareness for the test through a Facebook campaign and by reaching out to operators’ young family members and their friends. Additionally, seven professional game testers, who will take the game through all its stages, have been recruited for the beta program.

Sqwishland’s Web server has several practical features designed to drive customers to locations. One of them is the Sqwishfinder management tool, which allows operators to enter the locations of their vending machines and the Sqwishland toys available there. After a bulk patron enters a zip code, Sqwishfinder returns a list of proximity matches with directions by Google Maps. Location information, which can be added to the database at an operator’s discretion, is uploaded by using a special access code or by contacting Brand.

The game’s popularity will directly increase your revenue as an operator AND is really fun to play with your favorite characters that you are already familiar with!

SqwishFinder.com will display the locations of your machines on a world-wide map, allowing KIDS to search for their favorite Sqwishland products by zipcode

For more information contact Craig at craigg@brandimports.com.

Brand Vending Products has developed over twenty-five individual collectibles under various brands, such as Sea Mania and Pet Friends – selling 50 million units worldwide, since the launch in 2006. From June, 2010 forward the line will be re-branded as Sqwishland. Each capsule will contain a “fortune cookie” style secret code that will unlock that particular character in Sqwishland (on the internet) and will open games, interaction and a world of fun, through the internet. Kids will also be able to buy, and decorate a house for their “Squishy” character in the Sqwishland online world.

Above: Brand Vending Products owners, Dax Logue, CEO and Lauri Logue, CFO receive two awards from Bernie Schwarzli, Interim President of the NBVA.

Above: The Awards for Best 1″ Capsule and 2″ Capsule Product of the Year 2010.

Dax Logue stated that “The popularity of the line of ’squishy’ characters became evident as YouTube videos

of kids’ ’squishy’ collections began to surface. When you see eight year olds taking the initiative to make pretty darn good home grown movies, it doesn’t take much imagination to come up with an idea like linking the characters to an internet game”

The craze of online gaming has surged in recent years, driven by huge investments by Disney, with “Club Penguin” and by Ganz, with “WebKinz”. The Logues felt that “the opportunity to make a fundamental change to the delivery system of game codes into kids hands was so great, they decided to make the investment, and reposition their line.”

According to Logue, “The key difference between traditionally distributed products and Sqwishland is the price point – that, and its broad distribution. Whereas most web enriched products sell for $15 or more, Sqwishland collectible retails for just $0.50. This makes it incredibly affordable.”

In order to make Sqwishland more profitable for the Operator there will be a powerful software feature, called Sqwishfinder that will allow the Operators to enter the locations of their vending machines and the various Sqwishland series they are vending. This software will allow the collector to find the closest vending location with their favorite Sqwishland game character.

The online, internet play will be available starting June 1, 2010, at Sqwishland.com.

For more information contact Brand Vending Products 1-800-967-3048 – craigg@brandimports.com

“In 2006 we never would have thought these soft little animal figurines would become so desirable” says Brand Vending Products CEO Dax Logue. “Our company traditionally worked with novelty items that would sell around two million pieces in a year’s time”. Logue says “we knew something was different when this figurine series reached the two year mark and we were still sold out and backorders continued to grow”.

Logue said “The popularity of the line of “squishy” characters was evident as YouTube videos of kids “Squishy” collections began to surface”. Logue began to monitor the collector created videos and began to see a trend. “When you see eight year olds taking the initiative to make pretty darn good home grown movies, it doesn’t take much of an imagination to come up with an idea like an internet game” said Logue.

The craze of online gaming has surged in recent years driven by huge investment by Disney with Club Penguin and Ganz with WebKinz. Logue said that “ the massive cost of development of quality online gaming systems has prevented most entrepreneurs from jumping on the band wagon, however we felt that the opportunity to make a fundamental change to the delivery system of game codes into kids hands was so great, we decided to make the investment and reposition our line”.

“The key differences between traditionally distributed products and Sqwishland is the price point and its broad distribution” said Logue. “Whereas most web enriched products sell for $15 or more, a Sqwishland collectible retails for just $0.50. This makes it incredibly affordable to create collections and provides kids with access to feature rich gaming and social content for a fraction of the price of other web enabled alternatives.” 


The advent of Sqwishland is set to deliver huge benefits to the operators who distribute the bulk vending products in local and regional markets. “We have always relied on Operators to distribute our products so when we set about building Sqwishland a key focus was on how to drive kids back to vending machines and buy more Sqwishes. In doing so we knew this would increase sales and further cement the partnerships we enjoy with our operators”.

In the game there will be a powerful software feature called Sqwishfinder. Sqwishfinder will allow Operators to enter the locations of their vending machines and the various Sqwishland series they are vending through a simple management tool. For the collector this database of local vending machines will enable them to find the closest vending location with their favorite Sqwishland game character and included code.

With an established distribution network, and a highly desirable collectable figurine line, Logue knows that kids all over the world will want to play Sqwishland. “Children between the ages of six and sixteen will now have a community to go to, meet and play with other Sqwishland character enthusiasts,” starting June 1st 2010 at Sqwishland.com